Audacity...

[GreenFX]

ok, so i downloaded audacity...and for some reason it wont let me do anything when i highlight a clip...so any ideas as to where i could get another free music mixer/maker?

[DragonAvenger]

Do anything in what regards? You might as well figure out what's wrong with this one before you try to find another program that might have similar problems.

[DZComposer]

Poke around here, you may find an answer: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Audacity's a nice little WAV editor.

The problem with most free software (of pretty much) any kinjd nowadays is that a lot of it is loaded with adware and spyware. Audacity is nice because it is from a particular breed of free software that does not have this problem: It is open source! Putting Spyware/Adware in an open source project is stupid because it is just asking for someone to fork your code and release a clean version.

Of course not all open source software is free (as in beer), But then, not all free (once again, as in beer) software is open source either.

And, I wouldn't call it free if it crapped up my computer with poorly written ad-retreval software that filled my screen with popup ads.

[Sinewav]

To my knowledge, Audacity is the best you're gunna get without paying anything.

I'm fairly familiar with the program, so maybe I could help. Could you go into a bit more detail of what your problem with it is?

[sgx]

Goldwave is pretty kewl too.

[Darangen]

I used Goldwave before my SONAR days.

[Patrick Burns]

Audacity will do that to me sometimes. I just have to wait about 10 - 20 secs and the menus will become active again.

[Xenon Odyssey]

Audacity - recording

Goldwave - editing

Dynamic duo right thar, buddy.

[GreenFX]

thx guys, problem solved! (it was a total noob thing)